"In an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream...to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement...recent generations have been told...

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1. Verfasser:	Best, Joel 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oakland, California University of California Press [2018]
Schlagworte:	Soziale Probleme Unsicherheit USA
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zusammenfassung:	"In an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream...to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement...recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting...or are on the verge of getting...worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes...still the largest chunk of most people's net worth...may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems...and our anxiety about them...are socially constructed"...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-223
Beschreibung:	xxiv, 227 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:	9780520296343 9780520296350